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Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Ernst Fleischhacker studied and obtained his doctorate at the University of Innsbruck, with which he remained connected through teaching and research from 1979 onwards - i.e. also throughout his career in the public and private sectors. His areas of responsibility included numerous construction, infrastructure projects in the transport, energy and telecommunications sectors in Austria and abroad, as well as significant regional development and resource management projects in the Tyrol.
Together with his son Nikolaus, he founded FEN Sustain Systems GmbH in 2014 and subsequently FEN Research GmbH with the research centers "EWest" and "HyWest", which are also supporting components of the privately organized Codex Partnership of the Green Energy Center Europe in Innsbruck.

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Nikolaus Fleischhacker BSc MSc was born in Innsbruck in 1988. He graduated from the Bundesrealgymnasium Adolf-Pichler-Platz Innsbruck, studied Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Domotronics at the University of Innsbruck and also obtained his Bachelor of Science, Diploma Engineer, Master of Science and Doctor of Technical Sciences degrees there. Since 2012, he has been working first as a University Assistant at the Department of Solid and Bridge Engineering and then as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Strength of Materials and Structural Engineering at the University of Innsbruck.
In 2014, together with his father, he founded FEN Sustain Systems GmbH (FEN Systems), where he has since been working as the technical managing director, assisting clients from politics, industry, commerce and private households within the energy system transformation. He is co-founder of the Green Energy Center Europe at Technikerstraße 1-3 in Innsbruck, which has been home to the privately organized Codex partnership of players from industry and startups since 2016. This has given rise to the two research centers "E-West" and "HyWest", which he currently leads as CEO of FEN Research GmbH, founded in 2018. He plays a leading role in nationally and internationally pioneering research projects that focus on the energy system transformation. Most recently, he also served as an expert the European agenda process for green hydrogen.

Agethe Fleischhacker graduated from the pedagogical academy in Tyrol, in 1980. She held teaching positions from 1982 to 1995 at the domestic science school in Scharnitz and from 1995 to 2018 at the Höhere Berufslehranstalt (HBLA) West. Since 2013 Mrs. Fleischhacker is co-partner in building and operation of photovoltaic systems at Fleischhacker Ernst u Mitges. GesBR. Additionally, since 2014 she is employed at FEN Sustain Systems GmbH for HR management and supports in strategy and project development, quality assurance, monitoring and dissemination of project results.